Sentence examples for enthralment from inspiring English sources

They are enthralled, and Rebecca Hunt's writing is charged with the power of that enthralment.

A good story-teller, Mr Spufford recognises that readers will be drawn on not just by his brilliant literary evocations of Scott's motives, but by the knowledge that cold kills.This morbid enthralment perhaps explains the fascination with this decade's analogue to the Scott expedition: the deaths on Everest (the "third pole") of eight climbers on a single day in 1996.

Isn't it time that we released the Windsors from a duty which they find so onerous, and liberated ourselves from our absurd enthralment to them?

In the painting, the king gazes at Penelophon devotedly (the theme of male enthralment to female beauty was a favourite of Burne-Jones's), having put aside his crown and shield in deference to her beauty.

But Jeffery Kissoon admirably brings out Antony's echoes of lost grandeur even if, in the present, he exists in a state of sexual enthralment and is sustained by constant recourse to a hip flask.

It is not the fault of the excellent Rosamund Pike, who exudes radiant spiritual devotion, that I demurred at Mme de Sade's enthralment to her husband and wanted to giggle when she said that "he has built a back stairway to heaven".

But he shares his enthralment with new technologies.

The near masochistic torque of her limbs shockingly evokes Mary's erotic enthralment to Rudolf as well as her fatally adolescent fantasy of their relationship.

For May's aides to witter on about Chinese duplicity suggests she has yet to shed her enthralment to Home Office securocrats.

I took my enthralment with prehistoric portrayals of animals into new areas, asking what cave artists had made – or not made – of the vegetation of their world.

Here it may be true that he borrows a tenet from the Platonists, but not without biblical warrant, and the uncleanness of the sun and moon is a consequence of their voluntary enthralment, not its cause (see further Scott 1994).